A word of caution to those folks who have a pattern of overdoing it, or tend to think that more is better.  This is not true when it comes to colon cleansing.  Do not make more than three attempts to fill and clean the colon with an enema bag.  Usually the colon begins to protest and won’t accept any more fill-ups.  When having colonics on a colonic machine it is a good idea to continue until the water comes back reasonably clear for that session.  It is not a good idea for a faster to have colonics that last more than three-quarters of an hour to an hour maximum, or it will be too tiring.  Even non-fasters find colonics tiring.  After all, the colon is basically a big muscle that has become very lazy on a low-fiber diet.

I’ve personally administered over five thousand colonics, taught several dozen fasters to self-administer their own and stood by while they gave themselves one until they were quite expert.  In all that experience I’ve only seen one person have a seriously bad result.  This was a suicidally depressed water faster that I (mistakenly) allowed to administer their own colonics with my machine.  This person not only took daily colonics, but allowed water to flow through their colon for as long as two hours at a time.  Perhaps they were trying to wash out their mind?  After several weeks of this extreme excess, the faster became highly confused and disoriented due to a severe electrolyte imbalance.  They had to be taken off water fasting immediately and recovered their mental clarity in a few days.  The loss of blood electrolytes happened because during colonics there occurs a sort of low-grade very slow reverse osmosis.

Curing With Enemas

It is not wise to continue regular colonics or enemas once a detoxification program has been completed and you have returned to a maintenance diet.  The body should be allowed its regular functioning.

But because enemas immediately lower the toxic load on the liver, I do recommend people use them for prevention of an acute illness (you feel like you are coming down with something), and for the treatment of acute illnesses such as a cold.  I also like to take one if I have been away traveling for extended periods, eating carelessly.  But do not fall into a pattern of bingeing on bad food, and then trying to get rid of it through colonics or laxative.  This is bulimia, the eating disorder discussed earlier.

The Sheltonite capital “N” Natural capital “H” Hygienists do not recommend any colon cleansing, ever!  They think that the colon will spontaneously cleanse itself on a long water fast, but my experience learned from monitoring hundreds of fasters is that it doesn’t really.  Herbert Shelton also considered colon cleansing enervating and therefore undesirable.  Colon cleansing does use the faster’s energy but on the balance, colon cleansing saves more work on the part of an overburdened liver than it uses up.

Chapter Five